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Orgy n. (pl. orgies)

A sacrifice accompanied by certain ceremonies in honor of some pagan deity; especially, the ceremonies observed by the Greeks and Romans in the worship of Dionysus, or Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute revelry. Usually in the plural form. Note: (The singular is rarely used in this sense.) "As when, with crowned cups, unto the Elian god, Those priests high orgies held."

Wild, drunken, or licentious revelry; an uninhibited carouse.

A series of sexual activities involving more than two couples in a group.

Hence: An event characterized by unrestrained indulgence in passion; as, an orgy of buying of internet stocks.

Orgy n. (pl. orgies) A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See Orgies

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Etymology of 'Orgy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Orgy" Quotes from Famous Books

... an orgy of goblins, an image Of nudity flouting the flood, Of shorn-headed brownies who scrimmage And splash ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, February 11, 1920 • Various

... man and woman, had burst out into lurid flames. It was rare that a man had so cut, slashed, and vilified himself as did this depatriated citizen while playing the piano. He converted music into an orgy, ...

— The Goose Man • Jacob Wassermann

... of intelligence, less than refined cultivation, and less than agencies that contribute to the graces of life. He marvels that we have not yet attained the conception that partaking of food amounts to a gracious and delightful ceremony rather than a gastronomic orgy. His surprise is not limited to the people who administer these establishments, but extends to the people who patronize them. He marvels that the patrons do not seek out places where there is quiet, and serenity, and pleasing decorum. He returns to his own land wondering if the noisy restaurant ...

— The Vitalized School • Francis B. Pearson

... changing it. She only sent me about two hundred and sixty. I don't remember exactly, but not a note, not a word of explanation. I searched the packet for a pencil mark—n-nothing! Well, I spent the rest of the money on such an orgy that the new major was obliged to ...

— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... arrange carefully calculated effects, designed to alarm his readers, but not to outrage their sense of decorum. He has none of the reckless daring of "Monk" Lewis, who flung restraint to the winds and raced in mad career through an orgy of horrors. In his enchanted castles we are disturbed by an uneasy suspicion that the inhabitants are merely allegorical characters, and that the spectre of a moral lurks in some dim recess ready to spring out upon us ...

— The Tale of Terror • Edith Birkhead

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